Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1915 — CONFIDENT OF CONVICTION. [ARTICLE]

CONFIDENT OF CONVICTION.

Accounts Board Said to Have Copy of Muncie Confession. Indianapolis, March 8— It developed yesterday that important evidence in the hands bf the state board of accounts and the Clay county authorities to be used in the prosecution of George M. Ray, Clarence C. Shipp and Orville M. Hendricks is an alleged confession made by James M. Muncie, former trustee of Jackson township. Clay county. The confession is said to be in the form of an affidavit. Ray, Shipp and Hendricks were arrested here Friday night and were taken to Brazil, 'Members of the state board of accounts will not discuss the case, but it is reported that Muncie admits complicity in a deal to defraud the township. It is said that Muncie admits having profited financially by contracting for school supplies at exorbitant prices, including stoves, maps, etc.

“We have the goods on them,” said Gilbert H. Hendren, chief of the state board of accounts. Further than to express confidence that sufficient Evidence to obtain convictions is in the possession of the authorities, Mr. Hendren declined to discuss the case.